More Quotes by Washington Irving
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
